Myanmar’s Democratic Transition: What does that mean for the Persecuted Rohingya?
Date
Wed, 11/05/2016 - 08:30 to 16:30
Auditorium, Wolfson College
Convenor
Emeritus Professor Barbara Harriss-White
Speaker(s)
Emeritus Professor Barbara Harriss-White, Dr Maung Zarni, Emeritus Professor Barbara Harrell-Bond, Daw Khin Hla, Professor Michael Charney, Maung Bo Bo, Professor Shapan Adnan, Dr S Saad Mahmood, Dr Ambia Perveen, Matthew Smith, Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor Daniel Feierstein, Professor Penny Green, Thomas McManus, Amartya Sen, Tomas Ojea Quintana, Dr Azeem Ibrahim, Azril Mohd Amin, Mark Farmaner, Tun Khin, Nurul Islam, Dr Hla Kyaw
Objectives:
1. to continue shining the spotlight of university and independent research onto what is increasingly recognized as Myanmar’s slow genocide of the Rohingya among international genocide and legal scholars as well as world’s icons such as Desmond Tutu, George Soros, Mairead Maguire, Amartya Sen, the Dalai Lama etc.;
2. to call urgent attention to recent research into the deplorable human conditions under which over 1 million Rohingya live in ‘vast open prisons’ (i.e., Rohingya villages and towns) and the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps, which the New York Times call “the 21st century concentration camps”;
3. to present evidence to persuade Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi government to prioritize the end of decades-long state persecution of the Rohingya minority; and
4. to brainstorm critical and constructive ideas which may enable Myanmar’s democrats to remove one of the greatest obstacles to genuine democratization – the continued persecution of an entire ethnic minority in Western Burma
Hosted by the South Asian Research Cluster, Wolfson College, Oxford University
Registration begins at 8 am and the conference, at 8:30 am.
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